Yakuza 7 marks the decline of this series once for all, unbelievable. This game is on the same pedestal as Yakuza 3, F tier
Ryu Ga Gotoku's combat has become a generic's JRPG, all due to the insistence on wanting to be like Dragon Quest.

Several big franchises are reinventing themselves and trying to make new experiences for the players, and Yakuza, instead of also looking for a new experience for its players, decided to look for an already existing idea. In terms of being mediocre, this series will never disappoint me.

I don't want to go into details because I don't review spoilers but, in the narrative, this Yakuza returns with the flaws of the old games that were being fixed bit by bit, threwing it all down the sewer again.
Fire Emblem and Yakuza are two things from the same bag, two famous series but with a pitiful storytelling, it looks like it was written between 15yo high school classmates

The message it wanted to convey is beautiful, but its poor storytelling didn't help one bit and, finally, once again let's discard characters that are no longer useful to the plot, from the moment they regretted it and had nothing more to say, goodbye!! Suck my balls if it's exciting watching this same snowball for 7 games

This franchise once and for all doesn't know how to create heritage to its future games. If we look back we only have Majima (dude had only 1 game and was never important anymore), Saejima, Daigo, Kiryu and Haruka, the rest are tools that complement the plot. Even the ones who were left alive never appeared again, the form this series discard characters is appalling.

I think that once and for all I'm tired of Yakuza series, it's not worth my time anymore.
I'm sorry if I offended you, if you like Yakuza I have nothing against you, I'm just upset at the moment while my friends laugh at me behind my back because once again I decided to play an entire franchise and in the end it was just a mediocre juice
Several people asked me to play Lost Judgment but I don't want anything to do with Ryu ga Gotoku anymore, there's no salvation, forgive me

I'm fucking out

Even with this low rating, this game is sovl and was made with love. The gameplay deserves to be highly praised, a turn based inspired by the 90s style, it was supposed to be something limited to always the same thing, but the game presented fun and vigorous combat. The soundtrack was great, being one of the biggest points of the game alongside its artistic direction... and in the end, the biggest flaw of this work: the bland storytelling, villains, principles, characters and shallow plot, few dialogue, few build up... shallow in its essence. A game that could have been way, way, way better than it actually was.

Even though its thematic was awesome, it was a big lost of potential.

This game could've been so good if it hadn't fucked up. It's the antithesis of a linear plot and self-insert. After the prologue ends, the game also ends here. Basically, you're free to explore the world without a specific goal or linear structure. You may choose to search for all the characters on the map (though it's not mandatory), and in various locations around the world, there are quests related to each character. However, you can only unlock these quests at specific levels, requiring you to teleport or travel between places, and grinding. In summary, you lose the continuity and rhythm of one story to start another with no connection. In other words, the cast of characters in the game's thumbnail is basically a lie, as they practically don't even know each other well, or there is very little natural interaction.

I've now entered a story where the characters knew each other but actually there weren't any dialogues between them so I was like wtf. Not only that, but after recruiting all characters, they become part of your party. Yet, when you start any story, they all disappear in cutscenes, leaving only the protagonist of that particular story. Additionally, characters from the story's protagonist you're playing appear and have story-wise fights, but you don't play with them. Instead, you play with 'filler' characters (the protagonists of other regions, the other travelers)
It's a shame because it has very interesting characters and the game itself is very beautiful

so yeah the game is good but for having such asshole abyss fiction structure, it made the game ass

The soundtrack and universe are great. I've always been interested in exploring Granblue's world, and I'm finally done. I still see that it can improve in the future, but for now it completely SUCKS. It's shit.
I don't care about gameplay so all I'm left with is the story, which is ridiculous and poorly done. Anyways, Granblue is a massive series with an expansive worldbuilding, as there is much yet to show, it's unfair to judge the series as a whole for now.
But, yeah, having waited years and years for this game and having it be a disappointing experience, it was sad.